Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana took bereavement – Business News
The ex-JPMorgan Chase banker who accused a glamorous feminine colleague of forcing him to develop into her “sex slave” lied to the bank about his father dying so he may gather practically three months of paid depart — and apparently used the time off to organize the bombshell lawsuit towards Lorna Hajdini and his employer, The Post has discovered.
Sources stated that Chirayu Rana, 35, knowledgeable supervisors in mid-December 2024 concerning the supposed death of his father, Chaitanya, and that he needed to take time off from work to be along with his household — stringing collectively numerous kinds of paid depart along with 5 days of bereavement, sources stated.
But the elder Rana is alive and properly. The Post reached him on Sunday on the household’s $1.75 million home in Vienna, Virginia, the place he claimed he knew nothing of the extremely contested legal dispute.
Chirayu Rana pictured along with his mom Baruna and father Chaitanya in a 2014 picture. Facebook/Baruna Rana
“I don’t know anything about it. He didn’t talk with us or anything,” Chaitanya Rana informed The Post. “He’s my son. He’s a good guy.”
The now-unemployed money man, who The Post completely unmasked because the John Doe behind the eye-popping claims towards the 37-year-old Hajdini, was allowed to work remotely from the autumn of 2024 when he had first flagged to the bank’s high brass that his father was significantly sick, sources stated.
He then exhausted a string of depart allowances between early March and the tip of May final 12 months, when an initial draft grievance was despatched to the bank’s legal crew, the people aware of the matter stated.
One source with direct data of its contents stated it learn: “In or around November 2024, the plaintiff’s father passed away, and he went to his parents’ home in Virginia.”
“The company thought he was working through something,” stated one source. “You can tell that he was trying to play the system.”
Attorney Greg Chiarello ready the May 2024 doc, which additionally claimed Rana’s mom, Baruna, was sick.
Rana lastly filed his grievance practically a 12 months later on April 28 in New York County Supreme Court below the pseudonym “John Doe,” accusing govt director Lorna Hajdini, 37, of drugging him with Rohypnol and Viagra, coercing him into degrading intercourse acts, and threatening his profession if he refused.
Last week, nonetheless, The Post revealed that Rana by no means reported to Hajdini during his short stint with JPMorgan and that the pair had been below two totally different managing administrators.
A JPMorgan inner group chart, obtained and reviewed by The Post on Monday, exhibits that Hajdini has no direct studies in her function on the bank’s leveraged finance crew.
“I don’t know anything about it. He didn’t talk with us or anything,” Chaitanya Rana (pictured) informed The Post. “He’s my son. He’s a good guy.” Facebook/Chaitanya Rana
A JPMorgan spokesperson declined to remark past the bank’s assertion issued final week.
A spokesman informed The Post on Thursday that JPMorgan’s inner investigation reviewed emails, cellphone data, and witness statements and located no proof supporting the claims, including that ‘John Doe’ refused to cooperate.
Rana’s swimsuit was yanked from the docket on Wednesday night after the Daily Mail broke the information of the grievance, along with his legal crew saying courtroom officers had requested for procedural corrections to be made.
The doc spelled out in lurid element the claims that the 35-year-old had made towards his former colleague.
Hajdini’s legal professionals referred The Post back to their blanket denial issued on Friday.
Lorna Hajdini vigorously denied the allegations. Linkedin
“Lorna categorically denies the allegations,” they stated. “She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place.”
The Post additionally revealed that Rana left his job at personal equity firm Bregal Sagemount on April 2, simply over three weeks earlier than submitting the swimsuit. His biography continues to be on the firm’s web site.
Screenshots broadly shared online confirmed Rana seemingly consulting a legal chatbot as early as July 2024, practically a 12 months earlier than the submitting, as reported by The Post.
In that exchange, he described practically an identical allegations — together with being raped and drugged by a boss — however attributed them to “Morgan Stanley” and referred to the abuser as “he.”
The Post additionally revealed that Rana left his job at personal equity firm Bregal Sagemount on April 2, simply over three weeks earlier than submitting the swimsuit. TikTok/@dudesinsuitsnyc
The Rutgers alum and one-time scholar basketball participant didn’t be a part of JPMorgan’s leveraged-finance crew till spring 2024.
His journeyman profession in finance has included stints at Houlihan Lokey, Credit Suisse, TCG Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley, and the Carlyle Group.
Rana additionally briefly labored at MidCap Financial, an affiliate of Marc Rowan’s Apollo Global Management, the place he was “managed out” after six months over efficiency points, insiders stated.
Hajdini is a 15-year JPMorgan veteran and NYU Stern School of Business graduate who research for sommelier exams in her spare time and volunteers with a nonprofit that helps low-income college students attend faculty. Colleagues described her as “a top performer” when contacted by The Post final week.
